Another Poll Shows A Huge Booker Lead In New Jersey

A new poll from Rutgers University’s Eagleton Center for Public Interest polling shows Cory Booker with a huge lead over his Democratic opponents:

NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. – As the campaign to fill the U.S. Senate seat left vacant by the death of Sen. Frank Lautenberg gets underway, 55 percent of registered Democrats and independents leaning Democratic would vote for Newark Mayor Cory Booker in the Aug. 13 primary, according to a new Rutgers-Eagleton Poll. Trailing far behind are U.S. Reps. Frank Pallone at 9 percent and Rush Holt at 8 percent. The poll did not include state Assembly Speaker Sheila Oliver, who is expected to file to run today. The Republican primary race was not polled, as only former Bogota Mayor Steve Lonegan had announced a run while the poll was under way.

“Even with Oliver in the race, Booker is currently the odds-on favorite,” said David Redlawsk, director of the Rutgers-Eagleton Poll and professor of political science at Rutgers. “Booker has the most visible statewide profile by far among the Democrats running, and name recognition is critical in such a short campaign. At the same time, we surveyed registered voters, and special election turnout is notoriously difficult to predict. We shouldn’t write anyone off just yet.”

No we shouldn’t, but Booker’s opponents have a lot to ground to make up, as I noted yesterday, and not a lot of time in which to do it.

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Comments

  1. edmondo says:

    And Cory Booker surges into the lead to become the 99th senator to be totally owned by Wall Street Makes you wonder who the hell Bernie Sanders talks to all day, doesn’t it?

  2. Caj says:

    Let’s just give Cory Booker the job. Why wait?